Huntsville gazette., 1887-03-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

MRS. CAROLINE BECKER was sentenced
in the United States Court at Cincinnati,
on the 5th, to two years Imprisonment for
fraudulently securing pension from the
Government.
Ex-SENAToR'JoNEs, of Florida, wants to
be reelected, and, it is said, promises SEN
sationaI reasons for his continued absence
from Washington.
THE President celebrated the adjourn
ment of Congress by granting number
of pardons to United States prisoners.
JOSEPH W. BINGHAM, one of the editorial
staff of the Indianapolis Qnd.) Sentinel,
| committed suicide on the 9Th by cutting
his throat with a razor.
| AN explosion of fire-damp occurred in a
Belgian colliery near Mons, on the 9th,
and 144 men died from suffocation.
CoMMoDoRE E. z. LULL, United States
Navy. died at Pensacola, Fla, on the 9Th.
LIEUTENANT-CoLoNEL R. N. SCoTT
Third artillery, chief of the publication
Office of the war records of the rebellion,
died in Washington on the 5th, of pneu-
monia.
Mr.. g. HARRIS HEAP, the United States
Consul General at Constantinople, died in
that city on the 9th.
WILLIAM Cook. one of the seven organ
izers of the Knights of LABOR, died at
Philadelphia on the 9th, aged sixty five
years.
THE State Department has been Official
ly notified that cholera has been declared
epidemic at Montevideo.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
calle1 for statement of the condition OF
the National banks at the close of business
on March 4.
l. ,icci cinr1 cd =
lector M lgone of the po rt of New York,
he having served heretofore under
recess comm ission.
TRACY TITUS. the well-known theatrical
manager, died on the 5th at Sierra Madre
villa, Los Angeles, Cal
THE Cincinnati Knights OF Labor pro-
pose to erect S1O0,0'0 building.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will be nifty
years old on the 18th inst.
TIE remains Of Mother Angela were
buried at South Bend, Ind, on the 9th.
MRS. SENATOR BECK died suddenly at
Was hington on the Oh.
THE marble-workers' strike at Boston
has ended in victory for the men.
MRS RUTH HARMON, grandmother OF
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, died on the oh at
jackson. Mich.
HANLAN and Gaudaur are to row on May
30 for the championship of Amer lea.
Place not yet decided upon.
LAND COMMISSIONERS SPARES pronounces
the story of the sa of 61,0JO. 0OJ acres OF
land to a New York syndicate myth.
NATURAL gas has been struck at Alex
andria. Ind.
ADELINA PATTI is to adopt her niece,
Carlina Patti, of New Orleans
THE Bait more & Ohio strike in Pennsyl-
vania is assuming arge proportions.
THE new Cotton-Saed Oil Company has
been organized AMI Armour is left out.
ANOTHER fatal dyL lmite explosion oc-
Cured at the Bay Chester IN. Y.) factory
on the 7th.
The American Base Ball Association, at
its meeting at Cleveland, o., on the 7th-,
perfected the seasons schedule OF games.
ALEX. CRAWFORD, negro murderer,
was taken from the Winona (Miss.) jail
by a mob, on the 7th, and was lynched.
LEWIS PIKE, known as q miserly old
thief and fence, died at Newburyport,
Mass, on the 7th. He left large amount
of personal property.
NJ. DE LEssEPs is being lionized BY the
imperial family and high social circles OF
Berlin.
The municipal authorities OF Dublin ap-
peal to the world to prevent the British
Government from enforcing coercion
outrage" -
THE National Baseball League met In
New York on the 7th. The eighth ciuo
problem was not solved, but the inoica-
tions favor Indianapolis very strongly.
THE government and opposition 1orces
n the British House of Commons were
huev IN tha 7th musterinQ for the nnal
struggle on the 8th, when the vote was to
behed On the clocre ques taoQ.